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    power cleans

    Does doing deadlifts help with powercleans?
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    If you do your deadlifts explosively there will likely be some carryover, especially at the part of the lift similar to the deadlift. Just make sure you do you powercleans as fast as you can.
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    To a degree.

    Doing power cleans helps power cleans.

    Considering the complexity and multiple transition points of the Power clean, the Deadlift won't provide any help after the first pull.

    Try hang cleans or dumbbell single arm cleans for further support.
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    Well... Yeah. 1st pull. So will hang cleans (from the knee or waiste), clean pulls, clean from boxes or if you have a power rack from the rack. Pretty much any kind if pull that has the same movement.

    Just for fun deadlift 315 once, then reduce to 135 and powerclean it, you'll notice it feels easier.
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    If you ever watch Oly lifters deadlift, their starting position is pretty similar to clean (hips down, head up). The closer your deadlift start is to your clean, the more carryover.
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